Coffee Chocolate Truffles Recipe

How to make it

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• Melt 8 ounces of the plain chocolate ( semi sweet)in a bowl set over a pan of barely simmering water..
• stir in the cream and liqueur, then chill the mixture in the refrigerator for 4 hours , until firm.
• divide the mixture into 24 equal pieces and quickly roll each into a ball
• chill for another 1 hour until they become firm again
• melt the remaining plain, white and milk chocolate in separate bowls
• using 2 forks carefully dip 8 of the truffles one at a time into the melted milk chocolate
• repeat with the white and plain chocolate
• place the truffles on a board covered with parchment or foil
• leave to set before removing and placing in a serving dishwith paper cases.........
• makes 24
• Variations ....................
• you can changes the flavors by adding one of the following below to the truffle mixture .......
• ginger...stir in 1/4 cup finely chopped crystalized ( candied ) ginger
• candied fruit;.......stir in 1/3- cup finely chopped candied fruit .
• pistachio;.... stir in 1/4- cup chopped skinned pistachio nuts
• hazelnut;..roll each ball of chilled truffle mixture around a whole skinned hazelnut
• raisin..soak 1/4- cup raisins overnight in 1- tablespoon coffee liqueur....and stir into the trufle mixture .........
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